VKernel Named “Cool Vendor in Server
Virtualization Management” by Gartner

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VKernel Corporation, a provider of easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy
virtual appliances for managing virtual server environments, announced
today that Gartner, Inc., a leading independent research firm, has named
the company as a “Cool Vendor in Server
Virtualization Management, 2008.” The report
issued on March 17, 2007 lists VKernel as one of the “leading
contenders attempting to address optimization of the virtual-server
infrastructure.”

According to the Gartner report, the rapid deployment of virtual-server
technology is resulting in increased demand for tools to provide
more-effective planning and oversight. As organizations scale their
virtual infrastructures with velocity, new solutions are needed to solve
new management challenges. VKernel is changing today’s
cumbersome systems management approach with tools that are optimized to
save overburdened IT departments time with virtual appliances that
quickly deploy, require no learning curve, and instantly solve critical
issues in virtual data centers.

“It is great market validation and an honor to
be named as a Gartner Cool Vendor,” said Alex
Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel. “With our
expanding suite of virtual appliances, we are changing the traditional
approach to systems management by addressing the new challenges that are
arising with the rapid adoption of server virtualization. In particular,
Gartner has recognized our cost visibility and chargeback solution in
this report and endorsed the measured resource usage (MRU) model for
shared server cost recovery, which VKernel uses, in a previous research
report.”

The VKernel Virtual Appliance Suite for Systems Management is a set of “plug-and-play”
virtual appliances designed to quickly address real world systems
management challenges as organizations migrate to VMware ESX virtual
environments. VKernel products enable IT groups to immediately solve
today’s critical pain points by providing
visibility into the capacity and resource consumption of each virtual
machine. VKernel is currently offering a Chargeback Virtual Appliance
for gaining cost visibility and implementing chargeback, and a Capacity
Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual Appliance for identifying and eliminating
capacity bottlenecks.

The Gartner “Cool Vendor in Server
Virtualization Management, 2008” report was
authored by Cameron Haight, Ronni Colville, and Milind Govekar.
Gartner's definition of a "Cool Vendor" is a small company that offers
technologies or products that are:

Innovative — they enable users to do things
they couldn't do before.

Impactful — they have or will have business
impact. It's not just "technology for the sake of technology."

Intriguing — they have caught Gartner’s
interest or curiosity in the past six months or so.

Recently, VKernel also received industry recognition from Network
World when the company was named as one of seven virtual management
companies to watch in 2008.

About VKernel Corporation

Based in Portsmouth, NH, VKernel is dedicated to developing
best-of-breed virtual appliances that enhance performance, lower costs,
and simplify management of virtual environments of all sizes. As a
member of VMware’s Technology Alliance
Program, VKernel offers the industry’s only
VMware certified virtual appliances for analyzing capacity, chargeback,
and cost visibility. For more information, visit www.vkernel.com.

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